Leveraging Black pharmacists to promote equity in COVID-19 vaccine uptake within Black communities: A framework for researchers and clinicians.
Leveraging Black pharmacists to promote equity in COVID-19 vaccine uptake within Black communities: A framework for researchers and clinicians.
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10.1002/jac5.1669
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2022-08
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Maxam, Meshell
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Abdul-Mutakabbir, Jacinda C;Simiyu, Brenda;Walker, Ramara E;Christian, Robbie L;Dayo, Yewande;Maxam, Meshell
黑人在2019年冠状病毒疾病（Covid -19）中的代表性不成比例，而与之相关的死亡率和死亡率则是疫苗的疾病。包括缺乏医疗保健机会和不平等的Covid-19疫苗分配，进一步影响疫苗的吸收量。通过与社区领导者合作传播事实，值得信赖的信息，提倡公平地将免疫接收到弱势群体中，并创建低级别的选择，以便在此处分发疫苗，我们会彻底解释这些观点，并提供黑人药物在狭窄的疫苗中的作用。
Black Americans are disproportionately represented among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19)‐related morbidities and mortalities. While the COVID‐19 vaccines are positioned to change this disparity, vaccine hesitancy, attributed to decades of systemic racism and mistreatment by the United States health care system, heavily exists among this racially and ethnically minoritized group. In addition, social determinants of health within Black communities including the lack of health care access and inequitable COVID‐19 vaccine allocation, further impacts vaccine uptake. Black pharmacists have worked to address the pandemic's deleterious effects that have been recognized within Black communities, as they are intimately aware of the structural and systematic limitations that contribute to lower vaccination rates in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups. Black pharmacists have been integral to promoting equity in COVID‐19 uptake within Black communities by disseminating factual, trustworthy information in collaboration with community leaders, advocating for the equitable access to the immunizations into vulnerable areas, and creating, low‐barrier, options to distribute the vaccines. Herein, we thoroughly explain these points and offer a framework that describes the role of Black pharmacists in narrowing vaccine equity gaps.